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2 costly medicines, for the use of the troops, &c. an ex-
3 pense which might be almost entirely avoided, if the
4 physicians there were acquainted with the properties
5 of the native plants and drugs.
6 When I went to Lahore the second time, I was, as
7 before, appointed Physician to the Court, and also
8 Superintendent of the gunpowder-mill and gun-manu-
9 factory. The Dcir-ul-Shefa (hospital) in the city,
10 was under the direction of two brothers, Azeez-oo-
11 Deen and Noor-oo-Deen, both rich faqueers, and the
12 government paid for the medicines which were daily
13 distributed there; but, although I made some experi-
14 ments on my new system, at my own expense, yet,
15 my opportunities were very limited, as it was not
16 within my province to attend the Dar-ul-Sliefa of the
17 faqueers. When the English came, however, they shut
18 up the gun and powder manufactories, and ordered the
19 Durbar to erect a public hospital outside the city.
20 The management of this establishment was entrusted
21 to me, and I then obtained the long-desired oppor-
22 tunity of continuing my experiments, uncontrolled, in
23 the new method of treatment, and on a large scale,
24 until the annexation of the country, in May 1849; the
25 results of which surpassed my most sanguine antici-
26 pations.
27 My waiting-room was constantly filled with patients,
28 attracted not only by the inviting appearance and sweet
29 taste of the medicines (lozenges), and the (to them)
30 pretty wooden boxes in which they were delivered ;
31 but also, by the efficacy which they found these bon-
32 bons to possess. The establishment presented a curi-
33 ous aspect. Mv department, more resembling, in its